Founded in the 7th century B.C. as ancient Afrasiab, Samarkand had its most significant development in the Timurid period from the 14th to the 15th centuries. The major monuments include the Registan ...

According to his will, the great state and political figure Islam Karimov was buried in the complex of Hazrati Khizr mosque in Samarkand, on September 3, 2016. At the initiative of the President of ...

Central Asia's most populous country boasts a wealth of well-preserved mosques and shrines in famous silk road cities like Samarkand and Bukhara. For millions of Uzbeks these are sacred places.

Samarkand, four hours east of Bukhara and near ... is the size of a small village and needs time to explore. Bibi-Khanym Mosque – plundered for its marble columns – is another Islamic ...

including the famed Bibi-Khanym Mosque in Samarkand, which was once the largest in the Islamic world. Though many of them were destroyed, they have since been restored to the blue- and-gold ...

Samarkand, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan in Central Asia, is known as the "blue city" due to its many beautiful blue buildings. Positioned at a center point of the Silk Road, the oasis ...

This is the time of the building of the great mosques of Bukhara and Samarkand, Tashkent and Herat, all conceived and executed on a monumental scale - a central Asian equivalent of the European ...